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| fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4716 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese | Message 233 of 464 04 April 2014 at 4:53pm | IP Logged | |||||
Sure, but realizing it didn't make it any easier for her to be able to hear the difference or pronounce them correctly.
What does that even mean? If she had a text written "avô" and "avó" she would know what the words meant, but other than that the words are both oxytones...without context (like a personal pronoun or an adjective), she would never know. A similar thing occurs for the word "soco". In IPA, "socu" means "a punch" and "sɔcu" means "I punch". In this case, you don't even have the diacritics to help and they're both paroxytones. If what you mean is that one should rely on the context to figure out this differences in speech, I agree, but if someone would just say the words without context, she wouldn't know which was which. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5057 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 234 of 464 04 April 2014 at 8:02pm | IP Logged | |||||
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По-английски меня не понимают, напишу на русском. Половина решения проблемы - это ее осознание. Если ты знаешь, что, скажем, в английском shit и sheet произносятся разные гласные, ты
1. либо игнорируешь это 2. либо начинаешь тренироваться, чтобы освоить эти гласные. А если ты считаешь, что разницы нет и ты все делаешь правильно, то и делать ничего не будешь. Если ты начинаешь слышать какую-то разницу между звуками в каких-то словах, то очень важно понимать, это тебе кажется, это особенности произношения данного человека, качество записи или реальная фонологическая разница. Edited by Марк on 04 April 2014 at 8:03pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4845 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 235 of 464 04 April 2014 at 8:38pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Mark, if you want to discuss phonetics, please open a special thread about it. This is our team thread and not your private playground.
And while I understood most of your message, it's unfair to write in Russian, because a lot of people won't be able to understand what you have written. So, please refrain from discussing your private hobby-horses in this thread, especially if you can't do it in English. I appreciate your concern for correct pronunciation, but you can get very intense about this matter, so please stop it. Thank you! Edited by Josquin on 05 April 2014 at 12:11pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| andy123 Newbie Russian Federation Joined 4319 days ago 14 posts - 19 votes Speaks: Russian* Studies: English, Spanish | Message 236 of 464 05 April 2014 at 9:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
may be that is a global mistake. children never learn rules first. at the beginning they listen a lot, then they try to copy pronunciation, and only after about five years they try to write. at that moment they know how exactly every word sounds like. if you'll try to change order of stages, to place reading and writing first (especially reading by rules) - there is a huge danger to create a unique, your own language in your mind. as one man said, if you will study rules of some language - well, you will know those rules at the end. but if you want to know THE LANGUAGE, to feel it - you have to listen a lot and then speak a lot. at the end you will FEEL what's wrong without calculating by rules. it is the only natural way. for example, I myself never knew which words are exceptions in my native language, but I speak and write it pretty well. don't get me wrong, please. if some one likes to learn the rules - it's ok, so many people, so many interests. it's a huge work and I respect such people. the only point of my words is to warn of a danger of creating "your own Russian". sorry for bother you if you all already know it. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4845 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 237 of 464 05 April 2014 at 11:34pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Nobody really knows the rules of their native language unless they have learned them at school. However, when it comes to learning a second language, learning by listening and imitation won't be enough and it will take much longer than learning by grammar rules. Plus, most of us are not in the privileged situation to hear spoken Russian all day, so we don't really have a choice.
Children take years to learn their native language. They have adult native speakers around them all the time, so they get lots of input and correction. Adults simply don't have these resources and this much time, so they need rules. It takes a lot of time, before you really get a feel for the language and can do without rules. If I were to figure out the intricacies of Russian morphology by simply imitating what I read and hear, it would take me forever to master them. A simple rule like "There is always и and never ы after г, к, and х" makes choosing the correct ending much easier. So, the solution can't be learning like children do, but combining approaches: Learn the rules and get as much input as you can. This way, you will achieve the best results. In the end, our goal is to replace conscious rules by a feeling for what's natural, but I sometimes even need rules for using correct German, so we can't do completely without them. Edited by Josquin on 05 April 2014 at 11:36pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5335 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 238 of 464 06 April 2014 at 8:06am | IP Logged | |||||
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I am a huge fan of learning like a child or by immersion. In my opinion it far exceeds any other method. The
problem, like Josquin says, is that for us learners who sit at home, that method is not really available to us. If I had enough time and money on my hand I would have lived in Russia for a few months - one of my great sorrows in life is that I was not exposed to Russian at an early age - but I have a job and a family to support, and am not able to follow my desires. So the second best option is a combination of learning grammar and getting as much input as possible. But the only languages where my grammar is near perfect is French and Spanish where I did not learn any grammar until after I was already fluent. The problem is that I cannot reproduce the circumstances which led to that. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| andy123 Newbie Russian Federation Joined 4319 days ago 14 posts - 19 votes Speaks: Russian* Studies: English, Spanish | Message 239 of 464 06 April 2014 at 8:40am | IP Logged | |||||
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I don't think the "childlike" style is impossible in our homes. I'm trying it for Spanish now. 90 lessons of
Pimsleur for start from zero, podcasts, adapted audiobooks for now plus movies and skype talks in the future. we'll see if it possible or not may be in a year or two. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5057 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 240 of 464 06 April 2014 at 10:04am | IP Logged | |||||
fabriciocarraro suggests to learn Russian pronunciation rules by imitating what you hear. Why can't be grammar learned like that? I completely agree with your post, but I don't understand why I'm always criticized when I write similar things. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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